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UNPRECEDENTED: Aging boomer retires to free up job for someone younger (www.thebeaverton.com)

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[–] jwt@programming.dev 7 points 3 months ago

My guess is it's the tone/phrasing of the comment. They could've just said he has about 10 million bucks. Which imo is not an exorbitant amount of wealth to have accumulated for a (very...) senior citizen who has worked for >50 years in upper echelon functions.

The blanket statement about readers 'not being fine' because they don't have that kind of money also doesn't help.